gudgeon

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1. gudgeon - Noun

2. gudgeon - Verb

Meaning

A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.

What may be got without skill or merit.

A person easily duped or cheated.

The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.

To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.

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A characteristic of most trunk pistons, particularly for diesel engines, is that they have a groove for an oil ring below the gudgeon pin, in addition to the rings between the gudgeon pin and crown. Source: Internet

To make these more compact, they avoided the steam engine's usual piston rod with separate crosshead and were instead the first engine design to place the gudgeon pin directly within the piston. Source: Internet

The sides of the piston skirt around the gudgeon pin are reduced away from the cylinder wall. Source: Internet

Three compression and one oil-control ring above the gudgeon pin, and one oil-control ring below. Source: Internet

Councilor Gudgeon introduced the Victoria resolution. Source: Internet

Once again Gudgeon led the way with an outstanding game in defence and an ever ready willingness to take the ball up. Source: Internet

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